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In 2014, a photograph of Zhukova sitting on a chair designed as a mannequin of a black woman was featured on Buro 24/7, an online fashion publication. Sasha Kargaltsev's answer to Dasha Zhukova She also is a founding member of the Culture Shed in New York. The magazine took its name and spirit from Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Among the magazine's contributors are artists such as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Nick Knight, Marc Jacobs, Richard Prince, John Baldessari, Inez & Vinoodh, and Patrick Demarchelier. Since its inception, GARAGE magazine has worked with some of the world's most celebrated creators, and initiated global artistic dialogues. In addition, Zhukova is the Editorial Director of GARAGE magazine, a biannual print publication that focuses on the collaboration between contemporary art and fashion. She resigned from the position after three issues in November 2010. In an interview at the time she was unable to name a single artist she admired, saying she was bad with names. Many in the industry saw her as an unlikely replacement for launch editor Katie Grand. In February 2009, Zhukova was appointed editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Pop.

The building, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is a preservation project that transformed a 1968 Soviet Modernist restaurant into a radical space for exhibitions, publishing, research, and education. In 2014, the institution changed its name to Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and, the following year, moved to its first permanent home in Gorky Park.

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In 2012, the center launched the first comprehensive art education program and public archive of Russian art in the country. In 2008, Zhukova founded the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (part-funded by Abramovich ) in Moscow, a nonprofit organization supporting the advancement of contemporary art and culture in Russia and abroad.

She currently sits on the boards for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Shed. In 2006, Zhukova co-founded the fashion label Kova & T. After becoming involved with Roman Abramovich, she returned to Moscow and later moved to London, where she enrolled at the London's College of Naturopathic Medicine but did not complete the program. She graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara with degrees in Slavic studies and literature. She attended Pacific Hills School, graduating in 1999. It was a Hebrew college, Dasha's first school in the US, and she attended it for three years. Zhukova attended a Jewish day-school in California. By the time Yelena retired, she was a professor of molecular biology at UCLA, as well as an authority on diabetes. They later moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1991, she moved with her mother to the United States, settling in the Houston area as her mother had relocated due to work. Her mother is Yelena Zhukova, a Russian-Jewish scientist of molecular biology. Her father is Alexander Zhukov, an oil trader. She is the founder of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Garage Magazine.ĭarya Alexandrovna Zhukova was born in Moscow on 8 June 1981. Darya ' Dasha' Alexandrovna Zhukova ( Russian: Дарья 'Даша' Александровна Жукова born 8 June 1981) is a Russian-American art collector, businesswoman, magazine editor, and socialite.

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